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ALivK IN England. — In Mr. F. Bates' beautiful collection of British 

 eoleoptei'a is a specimen of MonohaiHus titillator, which was found 

 alive on a willow tree in the Freeman's Gardens, Aylestone Road, 

 near Leicester, by a Mr. Tristram, in the summer of iH95. Thouj^^h 

 no doubt an introduced species, it has as much right to stand in our 

 catalogue as 3/. sartor or M. sntor, as, like both these species, it has 

 been taken at various times alive in this country. Mr. E. A. Water- 

 house has a specimen of M. titillator which was taken alive at Batter- 

 sea Park about 80 years ago. In the British Museimi collection of 

 Longicornes there is a specimen labelled " taken alive in Surrey." Mr. 

 Bates also possesses a very fine specimen of Ccratiiln/.v Itrros, which 

 was picked up alive in Gray's Inn Square in June, 1902, by a work- 

 man, who took it to Messrs. Janson. When captured it was not quite 

 mature, having evidently but recently emerged from the pupa. — 

 Ibid. 



Beetles at sugar. — It is well known that many species of beetles 

 came to sugar, though such are rarely recorded, 1 noticed Bhaciium 

 inquisitor, in the New Forest, June, 1902, Helofis coerideus, East- 

 bourne, July, 1902, Ai/elastica halensis, in swarms at Freshwater, 

 August, 1902, all coming to the sweets spread for lepidoptera. — C. W. 

 CoLTHRUP, 127, Barry Road, East Dulwich, S.E. 



CoLEOPTEKA IN CUMBERLAND IN EARLY SPRING. — The Weather SO far 

 has been anything but propitious for field work, but whenever a finer day 

 than usual permitted a few hours' collecting, the results have invariably 

 proved satisfactory, especially from a county faunistic point of view-. 

 Several additions have been made to the Cumberland list of indigenous 

 species. Judtrirrna tarsatKs, Miill., turned up in hedge refuse in small 

 numbers, and, though a common beetle generally, does not appear to 

 have been found here before. Quite a lot of species occurred in this 

 hedge refuse, the best perhaps being Alcachara ruficornis, Grav., and 

 Cholera ani^ototnoidi'f;, Spence. Other species were Stoinis pionicatit.s, 

 Panz., Patrohnx eiraratiis, Payk., Ainara lunicollia, Schiod., A. ovata, 

 F., and several common members of the same genus ; Dcypns 

 brunnipes, F., Pliiloutliiis albipe.s, Grav., Stilicun affinis, Er., Steniis 

 ossiiou, Steph., N. inipri'sftKs, Germ., Olophrum piceum, GyW., Humalinm 

 excaratton, Steph., Mej/arthrus sinitatocolli.s, Lac, Homalota ffre(/aria, 

 Er., JJ. lonijicornis, Grav., and numerous others of the genus, Ipn 4- 

 piinctata, Herbst, and I.oviiitarsus aui'liKsa, Payk. A single Ocyptis 

 fnscatus, Grav., was found under a stone close by. An hour or two's 

 work at bark in March produced a nice series of (.'linocara inubdata, Kr., 

 another addition to the Cumberland fauna, and one of the liveliest beetles 

 I have ever bottled. On the same day a few Quediiis fioimtiis, Steph., 

 were obtained by sifting dead leaves. I have not done anything with 

 the water-net yet, but Haliplns fidnis, F., JJri/chiiis deration, Panz., 

 and ])eronecti's V2-pnstidatiin, F., were found clinging to an old tree root 

 in a backwater of the river Petteril, and, on the banks of the same 

 stream, one or two Homalota inserta, Thoms., and H. i/raiiiinicola, 

 Gyll., were captured. In the same district fli/lesiuus rrcnatus, F., was 

 found boring into ash. 



A visit to Skiddaw added Hotnalota tibialis, Heer, to the county 

 list. It occui-red freely in moss above 2000ft. Arpedimn bracJnjp- 

 teruin, Grav., was found at the same time, but less freely. C'alutltiis 

 var. nnhiijcna, Hal., was in fair numbers. The six oi seven speci- 



